Where does “pioni” come from?
pioni (Finnish) comes from Swedish pion, from Latin paeōnia, from Ancient Greek παιωνία, from Ancient Greek παιών, from Ancient Greek παιάν, from Ancient Greek Παιάν, from Ancient Greek παίω, from Proto-Indo-European *p(y)eh₂w-.
pioni (Finnish): peony
Definitions
- peony
Ancestry of “pioni”, step by step
pioni traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Swedish pion
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swedish | pion | peony; a flower; pion; any of the semistable... |
| 2 | Latin | paeōnia | peony |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | παιωνία | peony |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | παιών | a physician |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | παιάν | hymn to Apollo |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | Παιάν | Paean; in Greek mythology the physician of the gods |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | παίω | I strike, hit; I strike against or upon; I devour |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *p(y)eh₂w- | — |
via English pion
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | pion | Any of three semistable mesons, having positive,... |
| 2 | English | Pi | The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | πῖ | Alternative form of πεῖ |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πεῖ | pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the... |
| 5 | Proto-Semitic | pay- | the mouth |